Essays about: "elements of an essay"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 140 essays containing the words elements of an essay.

1. 11. Affect Poststructuralism and Repressed Emotion: The True Tragedy of The Remains of The Day

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Melvin Linderot; [2023]
   Keywords : Kazuo Ishiguro; The Remains of the Day; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day has garnered much discussion by literary theorists. Studies have primarily concerned themselves with the main character Mr Stevens and how he interacts with the complex situations around him. READ MORE

3. 12. Adrift in an Unfamiliar Place: Exploring the Architectural Uncanny in Rachel Cusk´s Outline Trilogy

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Alonso Mochales Rodríguez; [2022-12-05]
   Keywords : Rachel Cusk; Outline; uncanny; Freud; architecture; Jacques Lacan; Anthony Vidler; uncanny architecture; extimacy;

   Abstract : This essay explores the uncanny as an overarching element of Rachel Cuk´s Outline trilogy. This is done within the theoretical framework of Freud´s uncanny, the architectural interpretations of the concept, as well as with the help of Lacan´s extimacy, a concept that will be defended as closely related to Freud´s. READ MORE

4. 13. "I have alluded to him, Reader". Categorising literary references in Jane Eyre (1847)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Olivia Nordgren; [2022-02-17]
   Keywords : Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; allusions; references; structuralism; dimensions of the text; textual and extratextual; allusioner; referenser; strukturalism; textdimensioner; textuellt och extratextuellt;

   Abstract : This essay examines the use of references to real books within the narrative of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive novels of its time, which is well-documented, but there is a limited focus on the use of allusions and references woven into its narrative, as opposed to the references woven into the textual side of the prose itself. READ MORE

5. 14. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
   Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

   Abstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE

6. 15. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Quentin CAIZERGUES; [2022]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; The Fisherman and his Soul; fairy-tales studies; aestheticism; social critique; Victorian studies; Hans Christian Andersen; The Little Mermaid;

   Abstract : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. READ MORE